Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

MARTIN RENCHLER, aged slxty-two zen
into a vat of boiling water at Schnelders
brewery, Springfield, O., recently, and was
fatally scalded-
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN thinks the exper-
ments at Fort Scott, Kan, in the making
| of sugar from sorghum a remarkable sue
! cess.
AT a meeting OF the directors OF the Ne
vada Bank at San Francisco, James Y.
| Flood, who has been in i'll health 1or some
| time resigned the presidency, ana ex-
| United States Senator JONES c. Fair, after
being elected director, was elected presl-
| dent.
A STRONG effort is being made at Tolono,
Ill. to enforce the State Compulsory Edu-
| cational law, boys found in the streets
during school hours being promptly ar
| rested without warrants and locked up In
| the calaboose unless they can satisfactorily
! explain their absence from school
| YANKToN Dak.) Sioux were threatening
| trouble on the 18th to the surveyors and
| others apportloning lands IN severalty.
The malcontents numbered about thirty
and belonged to the non-progresslve ele-
! ment.
THE roof of the synagogue on Judge
street, Chicago, collapsed recently. Two
men were fatally injured and two seriously.
Four tracklayers were killed and sixty
one injured near Lake Ivanhoe, Col, on the
18th. by the cars, loaded with iron, turning
over on the men The accident occurred on
the Aspen extension of the Midland rail-
road.
AN unknown street peddler, walking on
crutches, went to the middle Of the st.
Louis bridge the other day and jumped OF.
He was drowned.
A RAvENNA, O., special of the 14th says:
ssMorgan, Coughlin and Robinson, the al
legged fur robbers, were arraigned to-day
for the murder of Detective Hulhgan, OF
Cleveland. The trio plead not guilty, and
were remanGed for trial. Morgan will be
tried first. The date has been fixed for
October 10.''
SOME time in June last, man represent
ing himself as Henry Puris, a wholesale
grocer of Chicago, began taking baths at
the Rammelsburg (Ark.) hot springs
where he became acquainted with colored
girl The other night the pair were mar
ried in Little Rock by Rev. w. 4. Carson,
of the A. NJ. E. Church. Puris made his
wife wedding present of $4,000 cash, and
his check for s., 000 Katie had been married
and divorced from negro husband.
THE National Distillers' Protective Asso-
citation finished its labors at Cincinnati on
the 18th. 1t was resolved to make a col
lection of 1850 Immediately from the
wholesale dealers and an equal sum from
the distillers for immediate use In Tennes-
see
THE National Press Association held it's
annual meeJing in Denver. Col, on the 18th
with 100 editors in attendance.
FIRE in Quincy, Ill, the other night de-
stroyed Peter 81. MERGERS planning mill and
dwelling, an engine house and two build
ings, causing 10000 loss.
THE Illinois Supreme Court, on the 18th,
affirmed the judgment of the Chicago Su-
perior Court in the case of the Anarchists
condemned to death, and set the execution
for November H. The opinion of the court
was unanimous and created much excite
ment in Chicago and other cities where
Anarchists have following. 1t was
thought that an appeal would be taken to
the United States Supreme Conrt.
GENERAL EDWARD CLARK, a hero of the
Black Hawk war, died in Ann Arbor,
Mich, on the 18th, aged eighty.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul di-
rectors have declared Il 80 per cent. divi-
dend on preferred and 2% on common
stock, payable October IA.
THE Salem new water works engine stack,
near New Lisbon, o., fell fifty feet the other
day, killing Joseph Dinsmore and fatally in
jsring three others.
THE Western Paint Manufacturing Com
pany, OF Cincinnati, o.. has made an as
signment with S50OO0 assets and S37, 800
liabilities.
1HE special S0SSlOn Oh the Leg
islative Assembly of Montana adjourned on
the 14th after session of about three
weeks.
A SHORTAGE of IS, 455 has been found in
the accounts of ex-County Clerk McClaren,
of Fulton County, III.
FIRE in Lake Crystal, Mimi, the other
night destroyed eight stores and offices,
causing SIG, 125 damage
A GREAT trotting race between Cling
.ln a DOL fln
o., on the 18th. The race was won by
Cingstone. Two of the heats were run in
2:17 and one in 2:19.
CHICAGO coal shippers, without giving
moments notice or the least intimatlon of
their intention In the matter have raised
the price Of coal 80 and IS cents ton on the
retailers.